U.N. Sustainable Development Goals Initiative

Creating sustainable value through corporate citizenship

We aspire to contribute to a society that is healthy, educated and productive — where none of our customers live in poverty, and the environment poses no threat to future generations.

We can only be as successful as the communities we serve. To that end, sustainability requires that our Corporate Social Responsibility strategies address both business and social impacts. Entergy embraces the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and has identified primary impact areas that align with our CSR business plan and strategies.

We Support Sustainable Development

Entergy’s Corporate Social Responsibility organization creates sustainable value for our stakeholders through philanthropy, volunteerism and advocacy strategies that deliver positive social and business impacts. Our philanthropic focus areas are aligned with this objective in mind:

Education and workforce development

Poverty solutions

Environmental programs

Within each of these focus areas, we select key initiatives for philanthropic and volunteer support and have a long-term vision for each initiative that guides philanthropic and volunteer investments. Our Corporate Social Responsibility business incorporates three-to-five-year targets for each initiative, and we report on our progress toward those targets annually.

Entergy maps our CSR strategies to the Sustainable Development Goals that are most closely related to our mission and strategic pillars, as detailed here. We identify how SDGs align with our philanthropic focus areas, how achieving these goals creates sustainable value for our stakeholders, and the business and social impacts resulting from our CSR initiatives.

Leading responsibly through UNSDG-aligned citizenship initiatives.

Entergy embraces the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and has identified six primary impact areas that align most closely with our mission, philanthropic focus areas and strategic pillars.

Breaking The Cycle of Poverty

Entergy’s Super Tax Day program is our signature poverty-elimination initiative. Throughout tax season and during annual Super Tax Day events, Entergy employees staff Volunteer Income Tax Assistance sites across our service area and help qualifying customers receive Earned Income Tax Credits. Since 2009, we’ve helped nearly 150,000 individuals and families work toward financial stability by filing for and receiving $258 million in EITC refunds.

Through funding and advocacy, Entergy helps ensure that all families — particularly low-income working families — have access to high-quality, affordable childcare and early-childhood education programs. We’re also addressing future workforce needs by supporting robotics and STEM activities in schools to help create a talent pipeline to benefit Entergy and other industries across our region.

Entergy believes all customers should have access to affordable and clean energy, regardless of their ability to pay. We are aggressively helping our vulnerable customers through a series of innovative programs designed to make life better for our low-income elderly and disabled customers.

At Entergy, we’re working to create a competitive advantage for our communities by partnering with them to build a skilled and capable workforce. Entergy’s five-year, $5 million workforce development initiative is designed to attract new industry and jobs to our communities through investments in workforce readiness programs.

Entergy is taking bold action to protect the environment and mitigate the impact of climate change on our communities. We accomplish our environmental goals primarily through programs that support coastal and wetlands restoration, reforestation, conservation and storm water management.

Entergy employees are helping create sustainable value for our communities through year-round volunteerism and charitable giving. We support and reward our employees whose volunteer service and fundraising efforts help build communities that are healthy, vibrant, prosperous and inclusive.